Centre for Stories
Stories
Stories are at the heart of what we do. The aim of our story archive is to make good stories available to a wide audience in the hope of strengthening connections between people and encouraging a more inclusive and informed community.
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Literary Mixers - Alice Nelson and Brenda Walker
On the evening of 6 June 2019, Alice Nelson and Brenda Walker shared snippets into the life and mind of a writer.Read More -
Soul Food
Alina Tang's Gỏi Cuốn
“Whenever we come together as a family which wouldn’t happen very often… we would all eat Vietnamese food and spring rolls were definitely one of the ones we’d all have. There's a feeling of community coming together, like a reunion almost.”Read More -
Special Conversations
NAIDOC Week 2018: Stories From Her
Cassie Lynch, Shirley McPherson, Simone Detourbet, and Esther McDowell speak on the NAIDOC Week 2018 theme: Because of Her, We Can!Read More -
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Jay Anderson's Ohn-No Khao Swè
“My dad’s parents are from Myanmar. They emigrated here in their 20s and this is that one curry that my family has eaten our whole lives.”Read More -
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Elisha Rahimi's Zereshk Polo
“…when I make the dish now compared to when people made it 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, or are still making it now in Iran, or all over the world—space and time doesn’t exist for those things.”Read More -
Soul Food
Mason Vellios' Pulni Pepedki
“Every time I’d go to my grandma’s, or every time we'd have a family dinner, she would always bring them. If not to eat, then just for spares, you know. She’d always bring spare food, and a “here, have this later” kind of thing...”Read More -
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Johanna Acs' Csirke Paprikás with Nokedli
“Paprikás csirke is a dish that is really simple to make… It’s a comforting dish that is a symbol of home and home cooking. For me, I think of my mum, I think of my parents.”Read More -
Special Stories
Tammy Bux – A Journey of Homecomings
Tammy Bux is a strategist by day and storyteller by night. She is passionate about encouraging people to celebrate their challenges and triumphs through storytelling.Read More -
Islands of Home
Fish Eat Fish
Islands of Home is the second series in Centre for Stories’ collection, The Indian Ocean. Written by Agustinus Wibowo, they bring to life intimate and telling moments of contemporary Indonesian society in five parts.Read More